Joe Biden on Thursday said that the US military mission in Afghanistan will end on August 31, defending his decision to withdraw American troops after more than 20 years of fighting despite the threat of a resurgent Taliban.
“I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome,” the president said while speaking from the White House.
Biden said the country had completed its objectives of finding Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11 2001 attacks, and had weakened the terrorist threat to the US mainland from Afghanistan.
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